Henning Larsen (1925–2013) was a Danish architect, internationally known for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Riyadh and the Copenhagen Opera House. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, the Architectural Association in London and MIT, counted Arne Jacobsen and Jørn Utzon among his mentors, and taught at the Royal Danish Academy from 1968 to 1995. His practice, Henning Larsen Architects, has continued under his name since his death. He won the Aga Khan Award for the Riyadh ministry in 1989 and the Praemium Imperiale in 2012.
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The Copenhagen Opera House (2005) was designed in close and often difficult collaboration with the shipping magnate Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, who paid for it. Harpa in Reykjavík (2011), a concert hall and conference centre, has a coloured glass façade inspired by Iceland's basalt landscape that also carries light works by the artist Olafur Eliasson. Bolgen in Vejle (2009) and Bildmuseet in Umeå (2012), clad in larch that will fade to grey, are among the practice's later works. Henning Larsen's buildings are studied for daylight and for civic buildings set into their landscape.
